Re: ARMv8 development board with GICv3

2019-06-24 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> If anyone finds any information on raspberry pi4 and it's bcm2711 that just > released I will be very interested to see if it's a suitable testing > platform. Not able to find documentation yet to validate that the interrupt > controller. Rest looks good. A little bit of foot work and things tel

Re: ARMv8 development board with GICv3

2019-06-24 Thread Nick Wolff
If anyone finds any information on raspberry pi4 and it's bcm2711 that just released I will be very interested to see if it's a suitable testing platform. Not able to find documentation yet to validate that the interrupt controller. Rest looks good. On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 5:32 AM Marcin Wojtas w

Re: ARMv8 development board with GICv3

2018-06-16 Thread Marcin Wojtas
2018-06-15 20:40 GMT+02:00 Alexandru Elisei : > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 8:51 PM, Jim Thompson wrote: > > > > > > https://gist.github.com/gonzopancho/760ab9ecee9dfbc1b6033e48647a4b48 > > > > Note: we haven’t upstreamed everything. Yet. > > Is FreeBSD bootable on the board and the NIC working? I

Re: ARMv8 development board with GICv3

2018-06-15 Thread Alexandru Elisei
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 8:51 PM, Jim Thompson wrote: > > > https://gist.github.com/gonzopancho/760ab9ecee9dfbc1b6033e48647a4b48 > > Note: we haven’t upstreamed everything. Yet. Is FreeBSD bootable on the board and the NIC working? > macchiato.bin needs interrupts and NIC drivers, and seems a be

Re: ARMv8 development board with GICv3

2018-06-15 Thread Jim Thompson
> On Jun 15, 2018, at 7:40 AM, Alexandru Elisei > wrote: > > Thank you all for your suggestions. > > I was considering the espressobin board [1], I only need a disk to > boot from and a network controller to connect to the board. > > It uses a Marvell 3720 SoC (model 88F3720) which according

Re: ARMv8 development board with GICv3

2018-06-15 Thread Michael Tuexen
> On 15. Jun 2018, at 15:24, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > > Hi! > >> On a similar note, the SoftIron OverDrive 1000 >> (https://softiron.com/development-tools/overdrive-1000/) might be >> suitable? It uses an A57 in an Opteron A1100 SoC. At $600 it's >> relatively affordable for a complete system. >

Re: ARMv8 development board with GICv3

2018-06-15 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > On a similar note, the SoftIron OverDrive 1000 > (https://softiron.com/development-tools/overdrive-1000/) might be > suitable? It uses an A57 in an Opteron A1100 SoC. At $600 it's > relatively affordable for a complete system. https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm64/OverDrive1000 says that it run

Re: ARMv8 development board with GICv3

2018-06-15 Thread Alexandru Elisei
Thank you all for your suggestions. I was considering the espressobin board [1], I only need a disk to boot from and a network controller to connect to the board. It uses a Marvell 3720 SoC (model 88F3720) which according to the specs [2] has all exception levels and it uses a GIC-500 interrupt c

Re: ARMv8 development board with GICv3

2018-06-14 Thread Michael Dexter
On 6/13/18 12:37 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: I believe the Chromebook SNOW meets the criteria, not exactly a "board" but I have one on loan from Michael Dexter that was originally purhased to support ARMv8 bhyve work. Peter Grehan handed one to Ruslan at AsiaBSDCon a few years back which led

Re: ARMv8 development board with GICv3

2018-06-13 Thread Rebecca Cran
On 6/13/2018 1:37 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: I believe the Chromebook SNOW meets the criteria, not exactly a "board" but I have one on loan from Michael Dexter that was originally purhased to support ARMv8 bhyve work. Not sure that it has a version 3 GIC either. Actually I am thinking that y

Re: ARMv8 development board with GICv3

2018-06-13 Thread Alexandru Elisei
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 10:30 AM, Emmanuel Vadot wrote: > A quick grep in the linux dts directory for arm64 give me a few SoC where > we boot on it : > > Thunderx and Marvell 37XX. > > That being said I think you better try with a gic-v2 board as I adviced in > AsiaBSDCon this year. I have vir

Re: ARMv8 development board with GICv3

2018-06-13 Thread Emmanuel Vadot
On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 00:39:43 -0700 (PDT) "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > > On 2018-06-13 09:06, Marcelo Araujo wrote: > > > 2018-06-13 14:54 GMT+08:00 Alexandru Elisei > > > : > > > > > >> Hello, > > >> > > >> I have been working on porting bhyve to ARMv8 and the hypervisor is > > >> able to succe

Re: ARMv8 development board with GICv3

2018-06-13 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On 2018-06-13 09:06, Marcelo Araujo wrote: > > 2018-06-13 14:54 GMT+08:00 Alexandru Elisei > > : > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> I have been working on porting bhyve to ARMv8 and the hypervisor is > >> able to successfully boot a FreeBSD virtual machine on the Foundation > >> Emulator provided by AR

Re: ARMv8 development board with GICv3

2018-06-13 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Hello, > > I have been working on porting bhyve to ARMv8 and the hypervisor is > able to successfully boot a FreeBSD virtual machine on the Foundation > Emulator provided by ARM. > > I plan to submit the project for review, but before that I need to > validate the hypervisor on a hardware platf

Re: ARMv8 development board with GICv3

2018-06-13 Thread Emmanuel Vadot
On 2018-06-13 09:06, Marcelo Araujo wrote: 2018-06-13 14:54 GMT+08:00 Alexandru Elisei : Hello, I have been working on porting bhyve to ARMv8 and the hypervisor is able to successfully boot a FreeBSD virtual machine on the Foundation Emulator provided by ARM. I plan to submit the project for

Re: ARMv8 development board with GICv3

2018-06-13 Thread Marcelo Araujo
2018-06-13 14:54 GMT+08:00 Alexandru Elisei : > Hello, > > I have been working on porting bhyve to ARMv8 and the hypervisor is > able to successfully boot a FreeBSD virtual machine on the Foundation > Emulator provided by ARM. > > I plan to submit the project for review, but before that I need to

ARMv8 development board with GICv3

2018-06-12 Thread Alexandru Elisei
Hello, I have been working on porting bhyve to ARMv8 and the hypervisor is able to successfully boot a FreeBSD virtual machine on the Foundation Emulator provided by ARM. I plan to submit the project for review, but before that I need to validate the hypervisor on a hardware platform. Can anyone